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As strangers lined up for white ribbons and American flags to show their support, family and friends of Anne Smedinghoff mourned the loss of a young diplomat who was determined to see the world — and possibly beyond. Her brother, Mark, recalled Monday talking to her after the U.S. landed a space probe on Mars last August and how excited she was about space travel. "She half-jokingly, half-seriously said she wanted to be the first space ambassador and work on intergalactic (instead of international) relations," Mark Smedinghoff wrote in an email. Anne Smedinghoff, 25, of River Forest, was killed Saturday with four other Americans while delivering textbooks to children at...

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As strangers lined up for white ribbons and American flags to show their support, family and friends of Anne Smedinghoff mourned the loss of a young diplomat who was determined to see the world — and possibly beyond.
Her brother, Mark, recalled Monday...

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(Reuters) - The United States has put trade and investment talks with Russia on hold as a rebuke for Russia's incursion into Ukraine, a U.S. official said on Monday.
"We have suspended upcoming bilateral trade and investment engagement with the...

Despite a recent souring of U.S.-Pakistan relations, a new trade development promises to sweeten things up.It’s the debut of Pakistani mangoes, the first shipment of which touched down at O’Hare on Thursday night. After a quick trip to Iowa for electron...

Despite a recent souring of U.S.-Pakistan relations, a new trade development promises to sweeten things up.The first-ever shipment of Pakistani mangoes to the U.S. touched down at O’Hare International Airport last week, the fruits of what Pakistani...

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Make s'mores, not war. That's the counsel of the T-shirt. Reason enough to boil a batch of the Afghani dumplings called aushak.
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"Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America" By Jack Rakove Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 496 pp., $30
Reviewed By Kirk Davis Swinehart for the Chicago Tribune
Since the end of the American Revolution, in 1783, historians of ...

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Veteran Chicago commentator Dennis Byrne is a weekly contributor to the Tribune's commentary pages and the proprietor of The Barbershop, a ChicagoNow blog. In Wednesday's Tribune he joins me in The Rhubarb Patch to debate the race for U.S. Senate ...

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